Control engineering problems are generally multi-objective problems; meaning that there are several specifications and requirements that must be fulfilled. A traditional approach to calculate a solution with the desired trade-off is to define an optimisation statement. Multi-objective optimisation techniques deal with this problem from a particular perspective searching for a set of potentially preferable solutions; the designer may then analyse the trade-off among them, and select the best solution according to his/her preferences. In this paper, this design procedure based on evolutionary multiobjective optimisation (EMO) is presented and significant applications on controller tuning are commented on. Through this paper it is noticed that EMO research has been developing towards different optimization statements, but such statements are not commonly used on controller tuning. Therefore gaps between EMO research and EMO applications on controller tuning are detected and suggested as potential trends for research.